单词 | victimage |
释义 | victimagen. The condition of being a victim; also, the practice of seeking out a victim, esp. a symbolic one, in order to expiate the guilt of some social group. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > [noun] > seeking out victim victimage1954 society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > [noun] > one who or that which undergoes > condition of being victimage1954 1954 K. Burke Permanence & Change (ed. 2) 284 A principle of absolute ‘guilt’, matched by a principle that is designed for the corresponding absolute cancellation of such guilt. And this cancellation is contrived by victimage, by the choice of a sacrificial offering that is correspondingly absolute in the perfection of its fitness. 1960 Encounter Dec. 70/1 Moosbrugger..has the double function of pharmakos and symptom. He can be held to be a case of victimage—an idea taken up by Clarisse—expiating the sins of others. 1979 J. V. Harari Textual Strategies 56 Mimetic phenomena such as victimage and scapegoating are understood as real and originating events. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1954 |
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